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Grave Slab of St. Lüfthildis (Aqueduct Marble), Römerkanal-Wanderweg Station 36

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Grave Slab of St. Lüfthildis (Aqueduct Marble), Römerkanal-Wanderweg Station 36

Name: Grave Slab of St. Lüfthildis (Aqueduct Marble), Römerkanal-Wanderweg Station 36
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Location: Meckenheim, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Philipp Hesse

February 28, 2023

It was actually a lime sinter plate that covered the tomb of Saint Lüfthildis. But because the grain looks so beautiful and noble, over time it became aqueduct marble. When the tomb was erected around 800 AD, the stone from the unused Roman aqueduct was used as the tomb slab. Another nice example of how many variations parts of the Roman canal were used in later centuries.

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SantiagoFreundeKöln

October 2, 2023

The following hiking guide can be recommended as accompanying literature on this path:
“The Roman Canal hiking trail. “How the water learned to run”
by Klaus Grewe and Manfred Knauff,
Publisher Eifelverein eV (ISBN 978-3-944620-27-5).
“On 120 km in 7 stages on the route of the Roman water pipeline from Nettersheim to Cologne. This hiking guide is indispensable for a proper overview of the technology of ancient water pipe construction and the variety of scenic and cultural treasures to the left and right of the Roman Canal hiking trail.

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R.Bungartz

April 13, 2024

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter was built in the 11th/12th century as a single-nave chapel, which was expanded and remodeled in the first half of the 13th century. The grave of St. Lüfthildis is venerated here. According to legend, she lived around 800 and to whom the place owes its name. The grave of St. Lüfthildis was formerly covered with the beautiful sintered limestone slab from the Roman Eifel aqueduct, which can now be seen in the side chapel. The beauty of the sintered limestone building material is particularly evident in this slab, and it explains why we respectfully call the material “aqueduct marble” today.
The slab formerly covered the saint’s grave in the nave of St. Peter. Later, it was broken through several times and kept in the organ loft. After a thorough restoration in the workshop of the LVR State Museum in Bonn, it regained its former beauty and can now be admired as a special gem on the Roman Canal hiking trail.
As the plate is hung on the wall of the chapel in the same way as it was taken out of the water pipe, its origin can be clearly identified: The layers of travertine clearly show how the water level rose steadily due to the travertine channel sintering and reached new zones on the wall. Layer by layer, the Roman canal's overgrowth can be proven. Source: roemerkanal.de/bauwerk

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Grave Slab of St. Lüfthildis (Aqueduct Marble), Römerkanal-Wanderweg Station 36

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